Workshop: Co-producing Knowledge with a First Nation – Reflections on Research With the Gwich’in of Canada’s North
Co-producing Knowledge with a First Nation: Reflections on Research with the Gwich’in of Canada’s North Attempts to enable symmetrical forms of knowledge production that minimize epistemological as well as other hierarchies between researchers and research participants take many forms. In Canada and elsewhere, Indigenous groups have established institutions for managing research activities in their territories […]
Call for Abstracts: Elephant Modernities – Thinking Along Blurry Lines Between Humans, Elephants and Technologies
Workshop: Elephant Modernities – Thinking Along Blurry Lines Between Humans, Elephants and Technologies This two-day workshop is dedicated to the topic of elephant modernities and invites experts to discuss and explore the lifeworlds of African elephants (Loxodonta Africana) in the Anthropocene. The concept of „elephant modernity,“ coined by „Sharing a Planet in Peril“ (SAPP) member […]
MESH Research Fruits: Assessing the Links Between People and (more than Human) Nature: a Pluralistic Framework for the Science-Policy Interface – With Sandra Díaz
MESH Research Fruits: Assessing the Links Between People and (more than Human) Nature: a Pluralistic Framework for the Science-Policy Interface – With Sandra Díaz Lecture | Assessing the Links Between People and (more than Human) Nature: a Pluralistic Framework for the Science-Policy Interface Professor Dr Sandra Díaz (Córdoba National University, Argentina) The international environmental science-policy interface has […]
EUniWell MESH BRIDGES Autumn Academy for Planetary Wellbeing
EUniWell MESH BRIDGES Autumn Academy for Planetary Wellbeing A Graduate School on Multispecies Conviviality (MESHWell) Cologne | October 14–19, 2024 At a time of global biodiversity loss, climate disruption, and environmental degradation, wellbeing cannot be restricted to humans but needs to be seen as well through a planetary perspective and as a matter of multispecies conviviality. […]
GSSC Public Lecture: Pay Dirt: Five Centuries of Latin American Extraction Revisited – Kris Lane (Tulane University)
GSSC Public Lecture: Pay Dirt: Five Centuries of Latin American Extraction Revisited – Kris Lane (Tulane University) Abstract: This presentation approaches current debates over mineral extraction in Latin America from a longue-durée historical perspective, asking how paradigms have shifted since the era of Columbus and Cabral. How have imperial or state imperatives driven or shaped […]
In the Media: BRIDGES Coordinator Nsah Mala
In the Media: BRIDGES Coordinator Nsah MalaNsah Mala is an award-winning poet, writer, children’s author, communicator-journalist, and futurist. At the University of Cologne, he is Coordinator of the UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Global Coalition hub for Planetary Wellbeing, closely associated with the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) and the hub for Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities […]
SAPP Members Pujo Semedi and Michaela Haug Celebrate 20 Year Anniversary of Tandem Research Training Program
SAPP Members Pujo Semedi and Michaela Haug Celebrate 20 Year Anniversary of Tandem Research Training Program The joint Tandem Research Training Program brings together students of Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Freiburg and the Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta. Projects activities are carried out in alternating years in Germany and Indonesia, supervised by […]
New Publication: Livelihoods and Contested Meanings of Land in Tanzania
New Publication: Livelihoods and Contested Meanings of Land in Tanzania „Sharing a Planet in Peril“ (SAPP) member Emmanuel Sulle (Global Faculty, Global South Studies Center and Aga Khan University, Arusha Principal Campus) and Richard Mbunda from the University of Dar es Salaam collaborated on an article on „Livelihoods and Contested Meanings of Land in Tanzania“ […]
Auerbach Lecture: Marx’s Communism in the Age of the Planetary Crisis – With Kohei Saito
Auerbach Lecture: Marx’s Communism in the Age of the Planetary Crisis – With Kohei Saito Date: Monday, 9 December 2024 | 18:00 (CET) Venue: Japanisches Kulturinstitut Köln, Universitätsstr. 98, 50674 Köln The Anthropocene is marked by a planetary environmental crisis. Since we did not act in the last decades despite various warnings, the time left to […]
Ethnomusicologist Luis Gimenez Amoros Joins GSSC as Humboldt Fellow
Ethnomusicologist Luis Gimenez Amoros Joins GSSC as Humboldt FellowEthnomusicologist Luis Gimenez Amoros joins the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) as Humboldt Fellow in October 2024. After a brief stint at the GSSC from October 2023 to January 2024, Amoros new fellowship has a duration of three years. „Sharing a Planet in Peril“ (SAPP) member Prof. […]
